I started out life as a painter, eventually designing and publishing a line of greeting cards under the title Y Art Works. During that period, three different series of small paintings were purchased by UNICEF for their line of notecards and Digital Stock, one of the earliest publishers of digital imagery, commissioned work for a CD of painterly effects called Conceptual Backgrounds. After landing my first design client, Y Art Works, evolved into a full-service graphic design practice from which I retired after 20 years. I began working with a camera about 10 years ago, and keep a daily visual diary with a focus on my immediate environment, the subtleties of light and intimate moments of ordinary life. My academic background includes studying painting at the California College of Arts in San Francisco, and a graduate degree in clinical psychology and art therapy from Antioch University.